Could genetically engineered cattle hold Ebola cure?

Maggie Fox | 
On a farm outside Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a herd of cloned, genetically engineered cattle are busy incubating antibodies against ...

Growing tobacco plants genetically engineered to produce drugs and vaccines

Bob Shaw | 
Dave Roeser, St. Paul's award-winning hydroponic gardener will still grow vegetables but is adding medicinal plants. He plans to raise ...

Uncommon year for flu vaccine as effectiveness lower than expected

Mike Stobbe | 
This year's flu vaccine is doing a pretty crummy job. It's only 23 percent effective, which is one of the ...

Could FDA’s plan to regulate laboratory developed tests help end pseudo-testing?

The FDA regulates in vitro diagnostic devices (IVDs) as medical devices. IVDs analyze human samples, such as blood, saliva, tissue ...

Low vaccination rates linked to rapidly spreading California Disneyland measles outbreak

Tara Haelle | 
Most people have heard by now that two dozen individuals who visited Disneyland between Dec. 15 and Dec. 20, 2014, ...

Why new guidelines for sharing clinical trial data are important

Judy Stone | 
We're in the middle of a major flu epidemic, and the CDC has recommended treatment with an antiviral (e.g., Tamiflu ...
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Breakthrough research: Bioengineered human muscle that contracts like real tissue

Macrina Cooper-White | 
In what's being hailed as a medical first, researchers at Duke University announced this week that they had bioengineered human ...

Eleven genomic medicine centers to lead UK’s 100,000 genomes project

Barbara Czub | 
Eleven NHS Genomic Medicine Centres (GMCs) have been announced by Genomics England. They will spearhead the 100,000 Genomes Project, which ...
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Why did some experimental HIV vaccines increase risk of infection?

Arvind Suresh | 
Several experimental HIV vaccines have not only failed but in some cases have increased the risk of infection. A new ...

Corneal stem cell research rapidly translated to the clinic shows promise

David Templeton | 
In Hyderabad, India, Sayan Basu is using stem cells in a pilot project to restore the eyesight of patients with ...
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As cases decline, experts stress urgency of Ebola vaccine clinical trials in West Africa

Andrew Pollack | 
As authorities and drug companies hurriedly prepare to begin testing Ebola vaccines in West Africa, they are starting to contemplate ...
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Will doctors prescribe the first approved US copycat biological drug?

Damian Garde | 
A group of FDA advisers unanimously recommended approval for Novartis'  knockoff of a blockbuster Amgen treatment, clearing the way for what ...

New bioengineering technique makes bacteria produce chemicals quicker and more efficiently

Cynthia Graber | 
Genetically engineered bacteria already produce some products of commercial interest or biomedical importance, such as insulin. And coaxing the organisms to ...

New antibiotic thwarts bacterial resistance

Ed Yong | 
The British chemist Lesley Orgel had a rule: Evolution is cleverer than you. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have repeatedly proven him right. Since ...

Potential obesity drug acts as a meal in a pill

Ian Sample | 
A drug that works like an “imaginary meal” has been developed by US scientists who believe it could help combat ...
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What will advances in genetics during 2014 mean for future of medicine?

Laura Hercher | 
No question that 2014 has been a year to celebrate for the field of genetics. Stem cell therapy, gene therapy, ...

Can this year’s flu vaccine quell the present pandemic?

David Kroll | 
As you’ve likely heard by now, the 2014-2015 influenza season is on a fast pace, now defined as a pandemic ...

Push for Ebola cure continuing into new year

Drew Hinshaw, Patrick McGroarty | 
Global health experts are preparing to test new treatments for Ebola in West Africa that they hope will eventually vanquish ...

What world has learned about limits of science and medicine from Ebola epidemic

Julie Beck | 
People in affected communities were understandably fearful; some were distrustful of health workers and resisted going to treatment centers, where ...

New method for clearing donated blood of viruses gains FDA approval

Andrew Pollack | 
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first system that could be used by blood banks to destroy ...

Ebola survivors’ blood might hold key to a cure

Declan Butler | 
The first clinical trials are starting in West Africa to test whether transfusing patients with plasma or blood donated by ...

Antibiotic resistance may be bigger problem than previously thought

Maryn McKenna | 
A project commissioned by the British government has released estimates of the near-future global toll of antibiotic resistance that are ...

Drug-resistant malaria strains pose challenge to disease prevention

Gretchen Vogel | 
The region around the Mekong River delta is infamous for its malaria parasites. Twice already—in the 1950s and the 1960s—they ...
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